2008年5月15日木曜日

Animal Rights

This is the pic of the poster with Pam AndersonI recently got from PeTAfor the article I wrote about Animal Rights.Those Japanese lines are saying "Let's be Vegetarians."

A while ago, I got "Live in Japan" album of late great Laura Nyro.She said to her audience"Is there any Animal Rights movements in Japan?"I laughed because it did not exist there 14 years ago,in which this album was recorded,and still does not exist there now either.

When I met a vegetarian for the first time,I could not help asking her why she had become the one.She said "not so much about health issue,but I think eating animals is very cruelbecause I grew up with so many of them."I did not believe her or could not,I thought simply because she did not like the taste of meat.

A few years later, I got a kittyand a year later she had five kittens.Well, I was amazed about how close they were to humans.They had individual personalities and emotions just like us.And then I felt ashamed of myselfabout the way I had felt toward that vegetarian girl.

In U.S. middle class Whites are educatedand tend to be libral and generous.However, I gradually learned thatthose are probably backed upby the huge gap of between rich and poorjust like ancient Greece had a democratic society with slaves.Despite of that, I definitely appreciate those qulities of them.

Then I wonder whyJapanese does not have this kind of generousity.At least they have been enjoying to livein the wealthy socirty for more than 30 years.Five or Six reasons I can think ofand one of those is the stupidity of Japanese media.They just do not do any enligtenmentfor their readers and audiences.I believe they have obligationsto introduce and inform about new ideas to people.If they do not have to do that, then who else?

So for the latter half of the article,I was indulged in bashing Japanese mediasand that made me feel gooooood!Hahahaha.

I myself am not a vegetarian,but I consume a very little of meat and fish.I do not say all of us shuld be vegetalians,but so many lives of animals can be savedif we cut back the comsumptions of meat,fish and other animal productsto the half of the amount we do now.And that would be great for our health and our environmentif we replace them with veggies and fruits.

It is not easy for people who live in poor nationsto understand this concept, that's for sure.They are struggling to survive every day.But most of Japanese aren't.Then it is the time for them to learn this ideathat they do not have to eat meat because they are not poor.Otherwise, they are the people of the mentality of the third world.Actually many of them are.I am sorry this expression might be prejudicalagainst the people of developing country.But you know what I mean.

自己紹介

I love animals, especially cats and Shiba inus. I love flowers too. Not having much reason to live, this depressive solitary nerd is too lazy to die. I think I would become a ghost and keep looking for my cats after my death.